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Jprofiler 5.11/29/2024 ![]() That potential may or may not be realized, but I am still reasonably convinced that the site in and of itself no longer justifies the time investment I'd have to put into it to keep it running in its current form. My thinking was (and still is) that the infrastructureholds more potential than the content. Why write something new instead of adapt an existing modern backend such as WordPress?WordPress would have made sense if the site were valuable in and of itself, but the site really didn't seem to be. Consequently early this year I made a deliberate decision to devote what time I had to writing a modern backend and putting updates aside while I did that. Nor did I think it was really worth pushing forward in its current state. This site has always been a part time endeavor, and I did not feel I had the time to both continue updating it in its current state and to work on improving it going forward. When I was writing and teaching more or less fulltime, I could treat this site as part of that, and arguably it returned the time I invested, but that's no longer the case.It was becoming more and more obvious to me that there really hasn't been much of value here for a long time, both to me or to site readers and that if Cafe au Lait was to become valuable again some serious rethinking and rework was needed. The code used to drive this site is vintage 1995 (yes, it's been around that long) so it really doesn't meet the needs of a modern site. Several people have wondered what (if anything) is going on here.The short answer is that this site is on hiatus while I work on a new backend. At the tune of the new year and a new decade, I've decided to explore some changes here.First bug filed against exist during this project.This morning a simple practice exercise to get my toes wet.I didn't really like the format of yesterday's Twitter dump so today I opened another can of XQuery ass-kicking to improve it. ![]()
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